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This paper evaluates policy alternatives to achieve permanent fiscal consolidation in Hungary, based on a general equilibrium calibration. The main finding is that the composition of the consolidation, as determined by the mix of revenue and expenditure measures, has important implications for...
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This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
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Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and individual incidence of...
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the experience of 34 OECD countries over 1980-2014 to assess the effects of changes in the tax structure on the long … while keeping government size constant typically lift long-term output per capita when they involve cuts in the labour tax …-income effects of revenue-neutral reductions in labour tax wedges are broadly in line with intuition: the relative position of those …
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a way that minimises deadweight costs and distortions weighing on growth and employment. Reducing further the tax wedge …
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How important are female workers for economic growth? This paper presents empirical evidence that an increase in female labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian provinces over 1990-2015, we found that a 1 percentage point...
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liberalization and tax policy, and gauges their impact on growth. The paper used a set of reform indices to gauge both short-run and … benefits of structural reforms are only seen over the long-term and in reinvigorating growth the reform effort needs to be …
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This paper discusses the theory and practice of tax design to achieve an efficient and equitable outcome, i.e. in … support of inclusive growth. It starts with a discussion of the key principles from tax theory to guide practical tax design …. Then, it elaborates on more granular tax policy, discussing key choices in the structure of the personal income tax on …
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"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback … possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …
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To investigate how public finances could best be designed to promote long-run growth and address inequality, it is essential to have comprehensive, cross-country comparable data on government spending and revenues, along with structural and policy indicators. By identifying key variables of...
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